Haunted Cities is the second album and major label debut by the Transplants. It was released on June 21, 2005 and includes the radio hit "Gangsters & Thugs". The album sold close to 34,000 copies in its first week and came in at #28 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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. This album was screwed and chopped by Paul Wall

Paul Wall

Paul Michael Slayton , better known by his stage name Paul Wall, is an American rapper. He is currently affiliated with Swishahouse Records, having released several albums under the label as well as...

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Track listing

All songs by Tim Armstrong

Tim Armstrong

Timothy Lockwood Armstrong is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, Downfall, and the Transplants. He is also the owner and operator of Hellcat Records.-Personal life:Armstrong was born November 25, 1965 and was...

, Rob Aston

Rob Aston

Rob Aston, also known as Skinhead Rob, is an American rapper, lyricist, and a member of the rap group Expensive Taste, along with Paul Wall and Travis Barker. With Tim Armstrong of Rancid, he founded punk/hip hop band Transplants and provided lead vocals on all of their releases.Aston's career...

 and Travis Barker

Travis Barker

Travis Landon Barker is an American musician, producer and entrepreneur, most noted as the drummer for the American pop punk band Blink-182, as well as the alternative rock band +44, the rap rock band The Transplants, and the alternative rock band Box Car Racer. He was a frequent collaborator with...

 unless otherwise noted.

1. "Not Today" (Armstrong, Aston, Sen "Sen Dog" Reyes
   Sen Dog
   Sen Dog is a Cuban-American rapper, and member of rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of fellow rapper Mellow Man Ace.Sen Dog has been developing his own solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill...
   
   , Barker) – 2:41
2. "Apocalypse Now" – 3:16
3. "Gangsters and Thugs
   Gangsters and Thugs
   "Gangsters and Thugs" is a single by the Transplants from their second album Haunted Cities. It reached number 35 in the UK charts.-Charts:...
   
   " – 3:54
4. "What I Can't Describe" (Armstrong, Aston, Paul Devoux, Barker) – 4:02
5. "Doomsday" – 3:49
6. "Killafornia" (Armstrong, Aston, Louis "B-Real" Freese
   B-Real
   Louis Freese, better known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper of Cuban and Mexican heritage, and a film and TV actor...
   
   , Barker) – 3:47
7. "American Guns" – 2:38
8. "Madness" (Armstrong, Aston, Dave Carlock
   Dave Carlock
   David Walter "Dave" Carlock is an American record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.Carlock's has talents as a singer, writer, producer, arranger, engineer, mixer, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and drummer. His production style has been described as very hands on and song...
   
   , Barker, Brody Dalle) – 3:09
9. "Hit the Fence" – 2:12
10. "Pay Any Price" – 1:57
11. "I Want It All" – 3:56
12. "Crash and Burn" (Armstrong, Aston, Rakaa Taylor, Travis Barker) – 4:45
13. "Red Dawn" – 3:52 (bonus track on the Japanese version)
14. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" - 3:58 (BestBuy bonus track)

Personnel

• Tim Armstrong
  Tim Armstrong
  Timothy Lockwood Armstrong is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, Downfall, and the Transplants. He is also the owner and operator of Hellcat Records.-Personal life:Armstrong was born November 25, 1965 and was...
  
   - vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboards, producer, engineer
• Rob "Skinhead Rob" Aston
  Rob Aston
  Rob Aston, also known as Skinhead Rob, is an American rapper, lyricist, and a member of the rap group Expensive Taste, along with Paul Wall and Travis Barker. With Tim Armstrong of Rancid, he founded punk/hip hop band Transplants and provided lead vocals on all of their releases.Aston's career...
  
   - vocals
• Travis Barker
  Travis Barker
  Travis Landon Barker is an American musician, producer and entrepreneur, most noted as the drummer for the American pop punk band Blink-182, as well as the alternative rock band +44, the rap rock band The Transplants, and the alternative rock band Box Car Racer. He was a frequent collaborator with...
  
   - drums, percussion, loops

• Sen Dog
  Sen Dog
  Sen Dog is a Cuban-American rapper, and member of rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of fellow rapper Mellow Man Ace.Sen Dog has been developing his own solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill...
  
   - guest vocals on track 1
• Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
  Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
  Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. are a hip hop group from Carson, California, composed of the Devoux brothers Paul, Ted, Donald, Roscoe, Danny, and David. Their family is from Samoa. They first began playing music in their father's Baptist church. Before anyone else arrived, they would play P-Funk and experiment...
  
   - guest vocals on track 4
• B-Real
  B-Real
  Louis Freese, better known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper of Cuban and Mexican heritage, and a film and TV actor...
  
   - guest vocals on track 6
• Rakaa Iriscience (Dilated Peoples
  Dilated Peoples
  Dilated Peoples is an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. The group achieved notability in the underground hip hop community, although they have had little mainstream success in the US, with the exception of the song "This Way," a 2004 collaboration with Kanye West and Xzibit...
  
  ) - guest vocals on track 12
• Baby Down - vocals
• Richard Stites - backup vocals
• Dave Carlock
  Dave Carlock
  David Walter "Dave" Carlock is an American record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.Carlock's has talents as a singer, writer, producer, arranger, engineer, mixer, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and drummer. His production style has been described as very hands on and song...
  
   - organ, synthesizer, guitar, bass, keyboards, theremin, backup vocals, producer, engineer
• Vic Ruggiero
  Vic Ruggiero
  Victor "Vic" Ruggiero, is a musician, songwriter and producer from New York City who has played in many ska bands, such as The Slackers, Stubborn All-Stars, SKAndalous All Stars, Crazy Baldhead and The Silencers...
  
   - farfisa, Wurlitzer
• Gemi Taylor - guitar
• Matt Freeman
  Matt Freeman
  Matthew "McCall" Freeman is an American musician. He is best known for his bass guitar work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy, Rancid and as the frontman of Devil's Brigade.-Playing style:...
  
   - bass
• Rich Graiko - trumpet
• Dave Holden - saxophone
• Brett Reed - percussion
• Scott Abels - percussion
• Nicky C. - drum programming
• Billy Jam - sound effects
• Neal H. Pogue - mixing
• Fredrik Sarhagen - engineer
• John Morrical - engineer, assistant engineer
• Nick Ferrero - assistant engineer
• Chris Rakestraw - assistant engineer
• Rob Abeyta, Jr. - art direction, design